Dating - attraction - relationships - we have this inner sense that it's all so incredibly important and meaningful, and that there's something wonderful at the other end of the rainbow. Then we look around us and see where people get when they follow their rainbows. And it doesn't look anything like what we'd have hoped for. (Or if it does, fast-forward and it really doesn't. I mean, being in the ground isn't that sexy, ok?)

We could forge ahead, hoping against hope.

Or we could say, "Maybe not in this life. Maybe it would have to be another world."

I'm pretty stupidly idealistic in my own way. The latter seems like the only sensible answer so far, for me.